First I want to thank all the people who checked out my previous lesson, I can't believe it has almost 5000 views. And thanks Kris for putting my lesson on the front page, it was an great honor.And thanks for all the nice comments.

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Welcome to my second lesson as an Aspiring Instructor!

This lesson is built on a riff with lots of power chords and some harmonics.The riff has a AC/DC and Van Halen vibe to it to me and I really wanna head bang to it when I hear it ( I didn't in the Main Video of course!)

The lesson starts with an "Intro Riff" and when the drums, bass and rhythm guitar kick in the Main Riff starts.For the drums a made a standard Rock Beat, I find that it really suits this riff.The bass guitar and rhythm guitar play about the same, except for that the bass guitar plays some octaves on the G chord.

The lesson is not specifically in any style (except for the riff) but there are some licks who are reminiscent of a few players.

This riff is inspired by AC/DC and Van Halen.As you can hear most of the riff is played with power chords.I also play a quarter bend on the seventh which creates a cool sound because it leans towards the tonic.There are also some natural harmonics like Eddie Van Halen does in his riffs.At the end of the Main Riff I play 4 harmonics, these are actually 2 G notes in 2 different octaves.When the Backing kicks in I scrape my pick against the strings.

This is a Paul Gilbert type of Pentatonic (speed) Run, but this one is in 16th notes and not 16th triplets.It ends on an Artificial Harmonic.The Artificial Harmonic note I play here is the same note as you hold with your fretting hand but 2 octaves higher. (Pavel has an excellent lesson on Harmonics check it out)(also see the video for little demo)

This lick is groovy!!!This is an open string lick ala Joe Satriani.I play the A minor Blues Pentatonic scale on the A string.I go till the end of the fretboard and land on the note G.Alternate picking all the way

This is the continuation of Lick 5 and this also is played with double stops.When I play/hear this I have to think of Gustavo Guerra!

Pay really attention to barring your ring finger on the G and B string by this one.Find the right spot on your ring finger where both strings are fretted.You also want to bend your thumb over the neck so you can really grab the strings with your index and ring fingers.

This lick is funky!The lick in played with string skipping and octaves.The picking of this lick is kind of up to you.You can alternate pick the whole thing but that can be hard with the string skips.What you can also do is down strokes on the E string and alternate pick on the D and G string.I don't really think when I play this lick. My picking is kinda random on this lick, sorry.

Practice trills with your pinky and ring finger and you're going to nail this lick in no time.Pentatonic, nice way to end your playing.

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That was the last lick!! I hope you enjoyed it.

I want you to get comfortable with octaves, string skipping (both hybrid and alternate picking) and doublestops.With the fast octave string skip technique you can create groovy licks but you can also use it as a note in the base.

The important thing to pay attention to with double stops is that you have to bar the strings really good.It can be hard to bar with your ring finger on the G and B string (that was the first problem I encountered with this)but with experimenting you will find the right place on your fingers.

I hope you will get some cool new ideas from this lesson and inspiration.